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...Will Eisner's last book, The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, (W.W. Norton; 148 pages; $20) arrives in bookstores early next week, just a few months after he died at age 87. A key figure in the development of graphic literature, Eisner worked in "the biz" for over 60 years. He set new standards for the form's possibilities with his cinematic weekly Spirit series during the 1940s, and then again in the late twentieth century, with his tireless boosterism for long-form "graphic novels." His final book combines literary biography and criticism...
...older, two threads in Eisner's work became increasingly prominent: Jewish identity and the urge to use his work to make a better world. The Name of the Game, from 2001 (see TIME.comix review), cast a family melodrama in the little-seen world of turn-of-the-century Old Money New York Jews who live in town houses. His 2003 book, Fagin the Jew, took Dickens' famous Oliver Twist character and invented a fuller biography for the character, with the intention of dispelling one of literature's most potent defamatory stereotypes. When I interviewed Eisner about Fagin he described...
...outright plagiaries, a comparison that the Times used to declare The Protocols a fake in 1921. The final, melancholy third of The Plot examines the enduring virus of Protocols, which, in spite of numerous, incontrovertible findings of being wholly forged, continues to be published the world over as truth. Eisner puts himself in the book, as the saddened pursuer of history who confronts a student group in San Diego touting Protocols as evidence of Jewish influence. The book ends on a vaguely philosophical note about the nature of prejudice and truth...
...Golovinski (at right) pleases his anti-Semitic boss in Will Eisner's "The Plot...
Sahara, directed by Breck Eisner and starring Matthew McConaughey, Steve Zahn, and Penélope Cruz, is based on one of a series of adventure novels written by Clive Cussler. The movie, like the books, follows the daring escapades of intrepid explorer Dirk Pitt (McConaughey), hunky marine adventurer...